1974

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1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar).

Years: 1971 1972 1973 - 1974 - 1975 1976 1977
Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s - 1970s - 1980s 1990s 2000s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1974 in aviation 1974 in film 1974 in literature 1974 in music 1974 in politics 1974 in sports 1974 in television

Events

January-February

January 5 - Dungeons & Dragons officially released.
February 4 - Patricia Hearst, the 19 year old granddaughter of publisher William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army
February 7 - Grenada becomes independent from the United Kingdom
February 8 - After 84 days in space, the crew of the temporary American space station Skylab return to Earth
February 12 - US District Court Judge George Boldt rules that Native American tribes in Washington state are entitled to half of the legal salmon and steelhead catches, based on treaties signed by the tribes and the US government.
February 13 - Nobel Prize winner writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from the Soviet Union (he returns May 27 1994)
February 23 - The Symbionese Liberation Army demand $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
February 27 - People magazine is published for the first time

March

March 1 - Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
March 1 - Pierre Messmer finishes his first office as Prime Minister of France
March 3 – A DC-10 of Turkish Airlines from Paris to London crashes in a wood near Paris. All 346 dead
March 8 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France
March 18 - Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
March 10 - Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan Lancs
March 20 - Ian Balls fails in his attempt to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
March 29 - Mariner 10 approaches Mercury

April-May

April 1 - the Local Government Act 1972 comes into effect in England and Wales, creating six new metropolitan counties and completely redrawing the administrative map
April 3 - The Super Outbreak, the largest series of tornadoes in history, hits 13 states and one Canadian province. By the time the last of 148 tornadoes hit early the following morning, 315 died and over 5,000 were injured.
April 10 - In Israel, Golda Meir resigns as Prime Minister
April 25 - Coup in Portugal restores democracy (see Carnation Revolution)
April 28 - Last Americans evacuated from Saigon
May 4 - All female Japanese team summits Manaslu and become the first women to climb an 8,000 metre peak.
May 9 - The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon
May 17 - Los Angeles, California police raid Symbionese Liberation Army headquarters, killing six members, including Camilla Hall
May 17 - Thirty-three people die from bombings in Dublin and County Monaghan, Ireland
May 18 - Nuclear test: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
May 18 - Completition of Warsaw radio mast. The Warsaw radio mast was the tallest construction ever built. It collapsed on August 8, 1991

June

June 1 - Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant in Flixborough, UK kills 28 people
June 6 - A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy
June 17 - A bomb explodes at the Houses of Parliament in London damaging Westminster Hall. The bomb had been planted by the Irish Republican Army
June 24 - The UPC label is used for the first time to ring up purchases at a supermarket.
June 30 - Assassination of Alberta King, mother of the late Martin Luther King, during a church service

July

July 14 - Chris Chubbuck, US radio presenter for Channel 40, draws a revolver and shoots herself in the head during a live broadcast. She dies in a hospital 14 hours later.
July 15 - Military coup overthrows President Makarios in Cyprus
July 17- A bomb planted by Irish Republican Army terrorists explodes in the White Tower at the Tower of London, killing one person and injuring 41. Another bomb explodes outside a government building in South London.
July 20 - War of July 1974: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus
July 23 - Greek military government collapses
July 24 - Watergate Scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rule that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor
July 27-30 - Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee adopts three articles of impeachment charging President Richard M. Nixon with obstruction of justice, failure to uphold laws, and refusal to produce material subpoenaed by the committee. He announces he will resign the next day, the first president to do so.

August-October

August 4 – Bomb explodes in Italicus Expressen train between Italy and West Germany. Italian neo-fascist terrorists take responsibility
August 8 - Watergate scandal: US President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (effective August 9)
August 9 - Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office, an action taken to avoid being removed by impeachment in response to his role in the Watergate scandal. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, takes the oath of office and becomes the 38th president
September 8 - Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office
September 13 - Japanese Red Army members seize the French Embassy in the Hague, Netherlands. They receive release of JRA member Yatuka Fumiya, $300.000 and flight to Aden
September 23 - [Ceefax] is started by the BBC - one of the first public service information systems
October 5 - The Guildford Pub Bombings - The Horse and Groom and The Seven Stars - lead to the wrongful conviction of the Guildford Four

November

November 7 - Lord Lucan disappears
November 7 - An IRA bomb explodes at the Kings Head Woolwich
November 8 - In Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy
November 10 - Members of the Movement 2 June try to kidnap Günter von Drenkmann, the president of West Germany's Superior Court of Justice, at his home but he is fatally shot during the attempt
November 16 - Arecibo telescope sends an interstellar radio message towards M 13 great globular cluster
November 17 - President Childers dies suddenly of a heart attack in the Republic of Ireland in a middle of a public speech
November 20 - The United States Department of Justice files its final Anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the break up of AT&T and the Bell System.
November 21 - In Birmingham, England, two pubs are bombed, killing 21 people (the Birmingham Six were later sentenced to life in prison for this)
November 21 - George W. Bush is discharged from the US Air Force Reserve
November 22 - The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
November 27 - The Prevention of Terrorism Act is passed in United Kingdom

December

December 1 - A Boeing 727 carrying TWA Flight 514 crashes 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Dulles International Airport during bad weather, killing all 92 people on-board
December 19 - Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh becomes the fifth President of Ireland, in a state inauguration in Dublin Castle
December 24 - Darwin, Australia almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy

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The Milgram experiment first described by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram in his 1974 book Obedience to Authority; An Experimental View.
Baltimore police strike

Year in topic

1974 in film
- May - George Lucas creates the first draft of what would eventually become Star Wars.
- The Godfather, Part II
- Chinatown
- The Conversation
- The Towering Inferno
1974 in literature
- Carrie by Stephen King
1974 in music
1974 in politics
1974 in sports
1974 in television
- Happy Days premieres on ABC
- Little House on the Prairie, starring Michael Landon, premieres on NBC.
- September 10 - The controversial TV movie Born Innocent, starring Linda Blair, was first screened on the NBC network in the United States. The film, which involved a fourteen-year-old being sent to what the television preview deemed a women's prison (when in reality it was a reform school), drew heavy criticism due to an all-female rape scene, the first ever seen on American television. The scene was deleted in subsequent re-airings after a group of girls assaulted an eight-year-old with a pop bottle, influenced by the scene in the film.

Births

Deaths

January-July

January 12- Her Royal Highness Princess Patricia of Connaught (Lady Patricia Ramsey)
January 31 - Samuel Goldwyn, film studio executive
February 11 - Anna Q Nilsson, actress.
February 15 - Kurt Atterberg, composer
February 21 - Tim Horton, NHL player, Hockey Hall of Famer, founder of Tim Hortons doughnut shops
February 23 - Harry Ruby, composer, writer
March 1 - Bobby Timmons, jazz pianist (b. 1935)
March 5 - Sol Hurok, impresario
March 20 - Chet Huntley, television journalist
April 2 - Georges Pompidou, President of France
April 15 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter
April 19 - Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan
April 24 - Bud Abbott, actor
May 24 - Duke Ellington, jazz musician, bandleader (b. 1899)
June 10 - His Royal Highness Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
June 22 - Darius Milhaud, composer
June 28 - Frank Sutton, actor (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) (b. 1923)
July 1 - Juan Domingo Perón, Argentinean military and politician, president of the Republic 1946 - 1955 and 1973 until his death
July 9 - Earl Warren, 30th Governor of California, and 14th Chief Justice of the United States.

September-December

September 3 - Harry Partch, microtonal composer
September 4 - Marcel Achard, play and scriptwriter
September 4 - Creighton Williams Abrams, American military officer
October 24 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
November 11 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer
November 13 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director
November 17 - Erskine Hamilton Childers, fourth President of Ireland
November 19 - George Brunies, jazz musician (b. 1902)
November 21 - John B. Gambling, radio talk-show host
November 29 - Peng Dehuai, former marshal of the People's Liberation Army and Minister of Defense of the PRC.
December 2 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897)
December 18 - Harry Hooper, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1887)

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish
Chemistry - Paul J. Flory
Medicine - Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E. Palade
Literature - Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
Peace - Séan MacBride, Eisaku Sato
Economics - Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich von Hayek

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